French-Italian Air Defense System Failed In Ukraine – Report

French-Italian Air Defense System Failed In Ukraine - Report

The SAMP/T Mamba system. Source: MBDA Systems.

The highly-touted French-Italian SAMP/T medium-range air defense system had failed miserably in real combat, the Wall Street Journal revealed in a report published on March 9. 

The SAMP/T has software problems, according to the report, who also said that the system struggled with technical issues that prevented effective interception of ballistic missiles.

WSJ also said that the United States-made MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense systems performed better than the SAMP/T and raised doubts about the reliability of the French-Italian system in high-intensity warfare.

In addition, the newspaper revealed that Ukraine quickly depleted its stock of Aster missiles, the system’s primary munition, limiting its effectiveness.

The SAMP/T, which was developed by the France-based Eurosam, is armed with Aster-30 radar homing interceptors originally developed for naval vessels with a range of up to 120 kilometers. The system utilizes THALES’s ARABEL multifunction fire control X-band radar which has a range of 100 kilometers.

Eurosam alleges that the system can counter an array of airborne threats including manned and unmanned aircraft, and is said to be especially effective against cruise missiles.

A spokesperson for Eurosam, the joint venture behind SAMP/T, has not yet commented on these performance concerns reported by WSJ.

In 2023, France and Italy supplied a SAMP/T system to Ukraine. The system was later destroyed, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Last year, Italy said that it would be sending another system to Kiev forces. However, it is still unclear if it has been delivered yet.

Ukrainian air defenses have very much collapsed in the last few months and with the reported half of U.S. military aid, Kiev was hoping to turn to Europe for help. Nevertheless, Europe does not appear to have the technological or economic capabilities to fill this gap.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

wsj advertising for raytheon again…..

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Clyde

hand-in-glove, wall street is the cia and the cia is wall street.

Jensen Huang

why does israel want the world to be diverse when they are the least diverse? double standards? israeli is like a jewish fundamentalist state. they don’t want to accept different cultures, but want others to accept different cultures?

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Paul

to divide and conquer the gentile nations.

kotromanic

some of them are saying it like miss lerner specter has. in a diverse environment jews wont stick out and be in danger.

Clyde

nothing funnier than jewish supremacists drumming up support for their apartheid state in canada, which is officially a nationless state.

Will

this plus 1000. some people need more than a 2×4 to the skull to see what is the current reality of the world

Milena

they didn’t care about syrian civilians and left them to the criminal terrorist al qaeda.
moreover, they betrayed the syrian tiger forces and therefore deserve to see al qaeda develop in russia and take away their chechnya. you know what tulsi gabbard said when she was accused of going to a meeting with al-assad?
tulsi gabbard’s warning to senate on syria proves prophetic as al qaeda-linked regime slaughters minorities

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kotromanic

thats the second time someone says this how did they betray the tiger forces?
as for al quaida in russia they allredy tried thats how the second chechnyen war happened.

Milena

hundreds of alawites reportedly killed as jihadists said to target members of country’s dwindling christian community
by benjamin weinthal fox news
published march 8, 2025 12:21pm est

Milena

director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard’s warning of a terrorist takeover in syria looks to be coming true amid reports that al qaeda-linked terror forces aligned with syria’s interim new president—a former al qaeda terrorist—are being accused of massacring alawites as well as members of the country’s dwindling christian community.
syrian security forces and affiliated gunmen have killed more than 340 civilians, the vast majority of them from the alawite minority,

Clyde

a “former” el kayduh terrist? wat dat is?

Milena

over the last two days, rami abdulrahman of the syrian observatory for human rights told reuters on saturday. at gabbard’s senate confirmation hearing she said “i have no love for assad or any dictator. i just hate al-qaeda. i hate that our leaders cozy up to islamist extremists, calling them “rebels”, as jake sullivan said to hillary clinton, “al qaeda is on our side in syria.”

Milena

syria is now controlled by al-qaeda offshoot hts, led by an islamist jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many american soldiers.”

an alawite woman from the region of al-ghab plain, where there is a majority alawite population, told fox news digital that the forces said, “alawites are pigs, and they have to execute all of them and the small children before the elderly people.”

kotromanic

thats the result if you bring freedom to a majority who wants the freedom to kill the minority.

Milena

tulsi gabbard, president donald trump’s choice to be the director of national intelligence, arrives to appear before the senate intelligence committee for her confirmation hearing on capitol hill on thursday, jan. 30, 2025, in washington. (ap photo/john mcdonnell) (ap)

the witness spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the authorities. she said that two militias had entered her house on thursday and searched her residence for weapons.

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one of the members “put a gun to my head and asked for all my money.they took all the money and took money from our neighbors.” she confirmed reports that the islamist forces murdered the prominent alawite 86-year-old cleric shaaban mansour and his son hussein shaaban. reuters reported that mansour was killed on friday with his son in the village of sahlab in western syria. residents there accused fighters aligned with damascus of killing them.

Milena

a sizable christian population living in the area has also reportedly been under attack. greco-levantines worldwide media reported that a young family, including their infant child, was killed on friday. a father and son, tony and fadi petrus, were also executed by islamists.

the witness said that in other alawite towns—nahr al-bared and deir shamil—the islamist militias “are entering houses and killing people and stealing everything. they are covering their faces.”

Milena

“i feel there is no safety. there is no homeland. there is nowhere to escape to, and no one to defend us. i feel fear and horrifying feelings.”

the witness added that the islamists are hayat tahrir al-sham (hts) and other such groups affiliated with hts, who stormed her region. she said hts terrorists were syrian arabs, because of their spoken arabic.

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she and her group wrote on telegram that al-sharaa’s “fighters have unleashed a wave of terror against civilians in syria’s coastal cities. reports from alawite community sources indicate hundreds of casualties, with christians also among the victims.”

in his first comments on the violence, interim president al-sharaa said that government forces would pursue “remnants” of the ousted bashar assad government.

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“we will continue to pursue the remnants of the fallen regime. . . . we will bring them to a fair court, and we will continue to restrict weapons to the state, and no loose weapons will remain in syria,” sharaa added in a pre-recorded speech.

the u.n. secretary-general antónio guterres, european politicians and diplomats from the former biden administration have sought to woo sharaa with sanctions relief and diplomatic relations since december.

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critics argue that a former islamic state and al-qaeda terrorist, sharra, can’t simply sport a suit and pretend he has abandoned his terrorist ideology and methods. just two days before the slaughter of alawites, guterres met with sharaa on tuesday in cairo where they discussed views about a new course for syria.

while an official statement has yet to come from the u.n. chief, his special envoy for syria, geir pedersen, said he was “deeply concerned” by the reports of killings.

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a group of alawite clerics, the alawite islamic council, blamed the violence on the government, saying that fighters had been sent to the coast “with the pretext of (combating) ‘regime remnants,’ to terrorize and kill syrians.” it called for the region to be put under u.n. protection.

syrian authorities said the violence began when remnants loyal to assad launched a deadly and well-planned attack on their forces on thursday.

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the violence has shaken sharaa’s efforts to consolidate control as his administration struggles to get u.s. sanctions lifted and grapples with wider security challenges, notably in the southwest, where israel has said it will prevent damascus from deploying forces.

the violence spiraled on thursday when the authorities said groups of assad-aligned militias had targeted security patrols and checkpoints in the jableh area and surrounding countryside, before spreading.

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moussa al-omar, a syrian media figure close to the country’s new leadership, told reuters that tens of thousands of fighters in syria’s newly constituted security forces had been deployed to the coast in the operation and that order had been largely restored as of friday night.

he said the crackdown was “a message to anyone in the south or east of syria that the state . . . is capable of a military resolution at any time, even as it seeks peaceful solutions.”

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alawite activists say their community has been subjected to violence and attacks, particularly in rural homs and latakia, since assad was overthrown in december after decades of repressive family rule and civil war.

saudi arabia condemned “crimes being undertaken by outlaw groups” in syria and their targeting of security forces.

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turkey, a close ally of syria’s new government, also stated its support for damascus, saying, “the tension in and around latakia, as well as the targeting of security forces, could undermine the efforts to lead syria into the future in unity and solidarity.”

israel’s defense minister israel katz blasted syria’s islamist rulers on friday for their campaign to smash a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted president assad’s alawite group.

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“[abu mohammed] al-julani (isis daesh) switched his robe for a suit and presented a moderate face,” katz said in a statement on x, using the nom de guerre of ahmed al-sharaa. “now he’s taken off the mask and exposed his true face: a jihadist terrorist of the al-qaeda school who is committing horrifying acts against a civilian population.”

Milena

katz added, “israel will defend itself against any threat from syria. we will remain in the security zones and mount hermon and protect the communities of the golan and galilee. we will ensure that southern syria remains demilitarized and free of threats, and we will protect the local druze population—anyone who harms them will face our response.”
the syrian alawite source in europe that the alawites want israel to protect them like israel’s offer of aid to the syrian druze population

SlavicPL

i see some syrian spam here, just know one thing: slav people have no obligation to protect anyone else than ourselves. russia did try to help assad but his loser saa capitulated so its on him and his losers. already too many slavs died for this.

we care only about our slav soil and slav nations, rest of the world can fix itself.

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kotromanic

its the western germanics the turks the arabs the isrealis and the ukrainians who helped al quaida take over. russia was never able to fight this alone when it has no direct supply line to syria. they are dependent of iran and irak letting them through which is something you dont want to depend on.

japie

britain,france,italy and turkey uses us weapons and capability to terrorise small countries and rob of oil,gas and minerals.look how angry their are against trump s their hidden plans collapse one by one.

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Sylvain

about one third of french people are not angry about trump game changer

Piipii

when the patriot has been revealed as a wretch, how wretched is this french creation? like the foreign legion? its honor is to die in battle. usually it is honor to win….

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Clyde

there is no way to sift through the chaff of propaganda when it comes to the performance of these high-tech lemons, no matter who builds them. there are still defenders of the sgt. york tapping their keyboards.

Will

in amerikan gay bars i succeeded in contracting aids –now i bitter retired janitor no pension

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